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So I was hanging out with a guy and we were ordering food and we saw potatoes O'Brien as an option and he said “You mean Senior Chief Petty Officer Potatoes O'Brien?” and we discussed the concept of Star Trek au where everything is the same except O'Brien is a Starfleet-grade sack of potatoes that falls over frequently. So here’s this.
Anonymous:
what are, in your opinion, some truly bizarre creatures? some unusual beasts?
These weird-ass lads are composed of hundreds or thousands of individual animals, each of which are highly specialized to do a specific task (digesting food, capturing prey, etc) much like the cells of our body. However, each of these animals is it’s own Little Guy. Siphonophores can also get up to 130 feet long, making them the longest animal on earth. (The Man O War jellyfish is a siphonophore, btw.)
Sea Elephant
It’s a pelagic sea snail!!! It has complex eyes and is incredibly curious about divers, even following them around! It’s name is Marc! (Not really that’s the photographer’s name)
Turtles
I feel like society is way too normal about turtles. The shell is their ribs and spine! They pull their heads into their torso!
Rough skinned newt
These newts produce an incredibly potent poison called tetrodotoxin. The amount of toxin in a single newt is strong enough to kill about 25,000 mice. Why would a squishy little amphibian need all that poison?? Because they are engaged in an evolutionary arms race with the common garter snake. The garter snake eats the newts, which selects for newts with stronger toxins, which selects for snakes with stronger resistance, and so on and so forth until you get these ridiculously poisonous animals and a predator with an incredible level of immunity.
These are the guys I can think of off the top of my head. But honestly all beasts are bizarre if you look closely enough
i love when boomers complain about shit like this because as a fast food worker i would literally rather walk out into the lobby and shoot myself in the head than suggest more than one menu item to a customer
Yeah former 8 year Starbucks employ here. This never happens. I’ve have had what amounts to a flip on this happen more often. Something like
“Welcome in what can I get you”
“I want a plain black coffee”
“All rights wha-“
“No sugar or cream or flavor or anything else.”
“Okay, got it, wha-“
“I don’t want no caramachmocha flippy-do’s or frappachina-what-it’s. Just. A plain ol regular black coffee”
“That’s great sir, now please wha”
“Just a old fashioned stright up coff-“
“SIR WHAT SIZE DO YOU WANT YOU STUPID FUCKING COFFEE”
